On Saturday at the Domus there will also be Selvaggi to push the rossoblùs
The former bomber, world champion with the Azzurri in 1982, will be awarded a prize by Ussi in Pula on Tuesday. "I will feel so much emotion to return to my Island: I want to meet Gigi Riva at all costs"Franco Selvaggi (left) with Gigi Piras on a recent visit to Radiolina (US)
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He will be awarded by Ussi on Tuesday in Pula, forty years after winning the 1982 World Cup. Franco Selvaggi, now 69 years old, and returns to Cagliari as a protagonist: on Saturday, before the match against Pisa, he will be given by the club rossoblù the honor of the round of the field with the jersey number 9, the one he honored in three years, from 1979 to 1982, with 85 games and 28 goals, before moving to Turin. “But I would never have left Sardinia”, repeats the former rossoblù bomber, who dragged the rossoblùs to sixth place in the 1980-1981 season as the pivot of an atomic attack composed of him, Gigi Piras and Pietro Paolo Virdis.
Welcome back, Savages.
"I repeat once again: I would never have left Cagliari".
But the company, in 1982, had to raise cash.
“Yes, I accepted Torino. But I had taken the house in Genneruxi and kept it for seven years. I came in the summer, before selling it to open a tourist facility in Metaponto. The sea, the people, the climate: the whole environment has remained inside me. Friends like Gigi Piras, the great captain, never forget ”.
With the Toro shirt you scored against the rossoblù.
"I was a professional, but I have always remained tied to the number 9 jersey that I wore thanks to Gigi Riva".
By the way, will you meet Riva?
“I want to meet him at all costs: if the company hadn't bought me from Taranto, he would have resigned from the management. It was like my big brother ”.
How will it feel to receive the applause from what has been your audience?
"Certainly a lot of emotion. And so much pride to continue, even if from a distance, to keep to the fate of our Cagliari. I am moved because I have been away from the Island for a long time: it is useless for me to underline that I am too happy to return to my Island ”.